Word: eureka
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Texan South's immediate wartime job is to get rubber out of the dense forests of the Orinoco valley. For this he will use a new version of Higgins' famed Eureka boat especially built for jungle rivers. Already he has 25 of these boats ready to go. They will cut down the time from Puerto Ayacucho to Ciudad Bolivar from a hazardous ten days by canoe to 24 hours by Eureka-and carry a hundred times as much each trip...
STANFIELD M. MAJOR Eureka...
...Greyhound did even better: 72 hrs. 4 min. for the 1,200 miles, a record still. As he worked with his racers, he evolved a boat that could jump over logs and even small spits of land without injuring propeller or other vital organs. From this grew the Higgins Eureka, a 36-foot motorboat with a spoonbill bow, a V midship section, and a semi-tunnel protecting the propeller, so sturdy that it can rush right up on a beach without hurting itself...
...companies used the Eureka for exploration trips in the Louisiana bayous, later tried it on the Amazon, in the Persian Gulf, in the Far East. But it took war to put A. J. Higgins into the big time. His Higgins Industries, Inc. (70% owned by A.J. and his family) went into receivership in July 1931 with a total plant and equipment account of $2,565. As late as 1935, the company's total sales were only $87,000. But the next year the U.S. Engineers Corps gave him an order for two river steamer inspection boats...
...Eureka landing boats, which, A.J. likes to say, could have accomplished the Dunkirk evacuation in less than half the time the British took...